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SC Dismisses Centre’s Appeal Against Treating Children Born Out Of Void Marriages As Legitimate

In UNION OF INDIA & ORS. vs M. KARUMBAYEE, the Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the Govt. and upheld the Madras High Court Judgment which had held that children born out of void marriages are legitimate.

The matter relates to the appointment on compassionate grounds in Southern Railway, of  a deceased employee’s son, born to his second wife, as he did not have any issue from his first wife. The Southern Railway rejected the claim for appointment on the ground that children born to second wife were not recognised and second wife was not entitled to any benefits, as per the instructions of the Railway Board.   According to the Railway Board’s Circulated, dated 2.1.1992, appointment on compassionate ground, cannot be granted to the children born to second wife.

The Madras Bench of the CAT rejected the Railway’s contention on the basis of the judgment rendered by the Division Bench of the Kolkata High Court in the case of Smt.Namita Goldar and another v Union of India and others.

The Supreme Court too, in the case of Rameshwari Devi v State of Bihar, [2000(2) SCC 431) had held that the second marriage during the subsistence of first marriage may be illegal, but the children born out of such second marriage are legitimate and are also entitled to the estate of the father. It is because under Section 16 of the Hindu Marriage Act, children of a void marriage are legitimate.

Article referred: http://www.livelaw.in/sc-dismisses-centres-appeal-treating-children-born-void-marriages-legitimate-read-order/

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